Browsing by Author "Qadri, Rida"
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Drivers of Disruption: How Jakarta's Mobility Platform Drivers Understand, Transform and Resist the Algorithms that Manage Them
Qadri, Rida (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)Leveraging embedded fieldwork with mobility platform drivers in Jakarta this dissertation shows how dreams of technologically-enabled disruption fall apart on the streets of Global South cities. Through the case of platform ... -
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions
Qadri, Rida; D’Ignazio, Catherine (SAGE Publications, 2022-07)<jats:p> This article theorizes the relationship between two ways of “seeing” and organizing urban mobility markets: the abstract, algorithmic vision of the mobility platform and the experiential, relational vision of the ... -
Vending the city : mapping the policy, policing and positioning of street vending in New York City
Qadri, Rida (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)tolerance of their activities; governments often allow street vendors in certain areas of the city, while relocating street vendors from sidewalks in others. In the absence of meaningful, in-depth datasets on urban ...